Brian Corey
August 8, 1963 – The Great Train Robbery
August 8, 2016
August 7, 1944 – VW halts production for WWII
August 7, 2016
July 31, 1971 – Men drive on the moon
July 31, 2016
July 29, 1909 – GM buys Cadillac
July 29, 2016
July 24, 2006 – The Cougar Ace tips its Mazda cargo
July 24, 2016
July 21, 2013 – Andrea Antonelli dies at Moscow Raceway
July 21, 2016
July 17, 1920 – Birth of Nils Bolin, seatbelt inventor
July 17, 2016
July 13, 1779 – The birth of William Hedley
July 13, 2016
July 12, 2012 – Nigeria tanker truck explosion
July 12, 2016
July 6, 1851 – Inventor Thomas Davenport dies
July 6, 2016
July 3, 1945 – Ford starts postwar production
July 3, 2016
July 2, 1992 – 1,000,000th Corvette
July 2, 2016
July 1, 2005 – The last Ford Thunderbird
July 2, 2016
June 30, 1953 – First production Corvette
June 30, 2016
June 22, 1933 – The death of Bentley Boy Tim Birkin
June 22, 2016
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